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Auster

Original title: Auster

2014 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kadri Kõusaar, Maximiliano Schonfeld

Two lonely young people are travelling together in the bleak Patagonian desert, searching for themselves and one another.

Two lonely young people – an ultra-religious exorcist Agustina and a shy sailor Lucas meet in Río Gallegos, Patagonia. Agustina is the first woman in the south to talk to Lucas… Clumsily, he tries to seduce her. She resists. Lucas is insulted and runs towards the immense Patagonian desert. Agustina follows him… ‘Auster’ comes from the Latin, and means the south wind. In the Argentinian context it’s the coldest, harshest wind, which constantly blasts across the desolate plains of Patagonia. This bleak, merciless climate also shapes and moulds the local people. Can these two - Agustina and Lucas - find a ...
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Child of Nature

Original title: Looduslaps

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

In two years she changed from a Playboy cover model into a child of nature.

Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries straight from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover...
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Collector

Original title: Koguja

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

Documentary directed by Mati Põldre tells about Olaf Esna - a bibliophile and antiquary in Pärnu.

Olaf Esna is an ardent book lover and keen on his home town Pärnu. He knows local history and people in detail. During the last decades Esna has been running a second-hand book shop. But he is not a regular salesman. Olaf Esna's passion is to collect and to deliver his valuable stuff to the right people. Many come around just for advice but some find hidden treasures, may it be ghost stories as a word of mouth or old time newspaper serials from the shelf. Even a known world traveler would enter as a pilgrim. In 2011 Olaf Esna was awarded Order of the White Star 5th ...
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Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis

Original title: Dora Gordine: Ars gratia artis

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Annaleena Piel Linna

Estonian-British documentary about Dora Gordine (1895-1991), a jewish young woman who grew up in Tallinn, Estonia, and became an internationally renowned sculptor, designer and artistocrat loved by high society.

In her hayday, Dora Gordine was considered to be one of the most talented sculptors in the world. Gordine was born in Libau, Latvia; grew up and studied sculpture in Tallinn, Estonia. While rising to fame in Paris, France via the Far East, she finally settled in London where her steady rise continued well beyond her contemporaries. Thanks to the marriage with the son of an Earl, Gordine managed to push her way to the top of the British aristocracy as one of her statues was opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself in 1963. The documentary focuses on discovering and ...
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Heinz Valk

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

Portrait documentary by Kristjan Svirgsden about Heinz Valk, artist and social activist.

Heinz Valk is the troubadour of the Singing Revolution, an artist and a social activist who has become famous for his sentence: "Some day we will win for no matter what!" Documentary tells the story about Heinz - a founder of People's Front, a witty caricature artist, an independent and idealistic thinker who despises consumer mentality. The historical cliche "Every revolution devours its children" applies to Heinz Valk. This film is a recording of the daily life and thoughts of an elderly man; yet, it gives a general overview about creative people in politics who after retiring won't classify either ...
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How I Saved Africa

Original title: Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin

2014 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

A witty and insightful portrait film by Kullar Viimne speaks not only of the clash of civilizations and the everlasting conflict of idealism and inevitability but also sympathizes with the hardships of one small Estonian girl in a big world.

Siisi is an active and attractive young woman who'd have enough energy to send Estonia's first spaceship to Mars. But instead, the urge to make the world a better place sends Siisi far away to Uganda, where she plans to open a café with the help of donators to offer work to the local young handicapped people. The start of the project is dashing but as the times goes by the more Siisi's idealism confronts the local working culture, sexual prejudice and economic inevitability because in a country that is one of the biggest coffee bean exporters only 0.6 percent ...
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In Between

Original title: Kahe maailma vahel

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Liis Lepik

Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

What does a human being really need? Over the few years more than three million Syrians have fled across the border to escape the bloody civil war. Kristi is an Estonian Muslim with Arab roots. She is a humanitarian worker at one of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan with a task to map the conditions of the camp’s teachers. People there have lost their homes, loved ones and are living in tents, but despite all that they seem surprisingly positive. On the other hand, healing the world is not an easy task and challenges Kristi’s own emotions and surviving ...
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In the State of Limbo

Title in Estonian: PMR

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Meelis Muhu, Kristina Norman

Filmmakers Meelis Muhu and Kristina Norman observe life in Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, that is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova governed by the real Soviet order.

Transnistria is an internationally unrecognized state that has declared itself independent. It is located on the left bank of the Dniester on the territory of Moldova, next to Europe. While being located under the sphere of influence of its former "mother country" Moldova and even more being influenced by Russia, Transnistria attempts to form some kind of national identity for itself. Under the leadership of dictatorial president Igor Smirnov everything reminds of the golden era of propagandism in the Soviet Union. Charismatic leader has been building the country on the ruins of Soviet Union – the air castle exists only ...
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Lusmägi INC.

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Marta Pulk

Twin brothers from a small town have courage and ability to dream.

Dreaming is a skill. The documentary tells the story about twin brothers from a small town Paide - Rainer and Ragnar Lusmägi. When they were secondary school students, the brothers came to the idea to establish a student company. They were inspired by Ragnar's hobby of guitar playing - he ordered plectrums from abroad. In 2011, they won the contest of youth business ideas and started to develop their own company selling guitar accessories for musicians. They also have another successful business Praktikum that provides young people with training opportunities. These two young men have courage to dream about the ...
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Medic

Original title: Meedik

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Janno Jürgens

Game becomes life. Architecture student Roomet is sent to paramedic training while serving compulsory military service. How to act, when suddenly you are now longer studying, but dealing with real life and death?

Roomet is a student of architecture who serves in national defence forces. He is sent to medical training where paramedics are being trained for the reserve service units. The medical training lasts for a few months during which the normal playful military training will be combined with the real work in Tallinn Emergency Medical Care. The training introduces Roomet to situations that the man has never even dreamt about. The audiovisual journey brings the viewers to the period in a young man's lfe that defines the new generation. Routine enchaining a free spirit, lack of space and always the same ...
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